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Research shows that the number of words an infant is exposed to has a direct effect on language development and literacy, whether they understand them immediately or not. Many of us know this instinctively; it’s why we find ourselves
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“Stories do more than comfort. They take you away and bring you back better made.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
“Maisie’s phone rings. The house rule is no phones at the table but we’ve made an exception for Maisie who keeps getting calls from neighbors asking for help, and we made an exception for Emily so that Benny can text her and tell her what time he’ll be back at the house, and so of course we extended the exception to Nell, because why would we let her sisters answer their phones at the table and make her turn hers off? Joe and I turn off our phones because everyone we want to talk to is here”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Good marriages are never as interesting as bad affairs.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“You can’t pretend this [Covid] isn’t happening,” Maisie said. I couldn’t, and I don’t. Nor do I pretend that all of us being together doesn’t fill me with joy. I understand that joy is inappropriate these days and still, we feel what we feel.”
― Tom Lake
― Tom Lake
“Dr. Hoffman told me the word kumbaya was originally an African American spiritual, a song that was also a prayer asking for divine intervention, asking for help in dire times, and that then the hippies in the sixties took it and sang it to mean unity amid protest, and then it got played out and became a stand-in for corniness about togetherness.”
― Wandering Stars
― Wandering Stars
Mrs.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mrs.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
688 books
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16 friends
95 books
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278 friends
153 books
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7 friends
952 books
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7 friends
278 books
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6 friends
10 books
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1 friend
594 books
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106 friends
2,377 books
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16 friends
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